After the second largest air strike of the war, Kiev has been declared a day of mourning, which kills at least 23 people so far, including four children.
The city’s mayor, Vitali Clitsco said it was to honor the dead, as a large -scale recovery attempt is on in the five -storey block of the flats, where 22 out of 23 were killed.
The attack has been widely condemned – the White House said that President Donald Trump was “not happy” but not surprised, while the European Union Commission Ursula von Der Leyen said Russia “would” nothing to terrorize Ukraine “.
Meanwhile, the European Union Defense Minister is meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark on Friday to discuss military support for Ukraine.
The attack also damaged the European Union’s diplomatic mission and the British Council building in the middle of the middle.
Speaking on the way at Friday’s meeting, Lithuania Defense Minister Dovevilan šakalienė said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “buying time to kill more people cheaply”.
“Expectations of potential peace talks are at least innocent when we see what is happening in Ukraine and what has happened now [on Thursday]”He said.
Astonia Defense Minister Hano Peevakur said that the best security guarantee for Ukraine would be NATO membership.
A low battle was observed throughout the night from Thursday to Friday, although both Russia and Ukraine reported shooting dozens of drones.
Kharkiv’s regional head Oleh Sinihbov said that five settlements were attacked in his area, in which a person was killed in Kupyank.
Trump had expected to organize a summit associated with Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky and Putin to end the war, but those efforts have been stopped.
Speaking after Thursday’s attack, Zelansky said Moscow had chosen “ballistic instead of the conversation table”, and reiterated the need for “new, difficult restrictions” on Russia.
Speaking after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, German Chancellor Frederick Merz said that there was no possibility that there would be a meeting between Putin and Jelanki.
